does the "push mail" status bar notification not show up at all?
It is the blue capital "@" character, right? It appears just temporarily ("@ AquaMail - Syncing with ...."), while I'm manually syncing any account, or keeps if I allow "Settings / Mail, receiving / System settings /
Sync, even if { automatic system synchronization | background data } is switched off" - then I get "@ AquaMail - Launching Push Imap: ....", finally followed by "@ AquaMail - Push mail: account1, account2" entry in the notification area.
But the push does not happen, if I have "... / System settings /
Obey everything" selected here.
Your setting are all correct, there is only one more thing I'd check:
- System settings -> accounts -> make sure that the system wide "background sync" setting is allowed (enabled)
In the Android's "Settings / Accounts" area I have "Dropbox", "E-mail", "Google" and green "(+) Add account":
- "Google" item contains two e-mail accounts, bound with my phone. Both of them show up with "Synchronisation is disabled" line below. But their regular automatic synchronization has always been disabled.
- "E-mail" item contains the same two and one more e-mail account, all of them show up with "Synchronisation is disabled" line below.
I remember, that the sync settings looked a bit differently (how exactly?

) under Gingerbread, but I did not play with it anymore for nearly a year long.
Besides this, I'm not able to find anything else, which would better match anything like '
the system wide "background sync" setting'
(Note that my device's System language is set to Slovak, thus the translation differences could be an issue as well. BTW, is it possible to switch AquaMail to display a non-system language (like English)?)
If this checks out, and still no go, please consider capturing the issue in a debug log (see my signature below).
You'll want to reboot the device after enabling logging, so it starts from a known initial state, and to keep it enabled for an hour or two.
I'll possibly have to. But, with regard to the previous two paragraphs, my question is: where the heck is the "
automatic system synchronization" or "
system wide 'background sync'" settings buried???
So far, thanks for your notes...
